It's like that with any new or relatively new hardware sometime it takes a little bit for Linux to catch up in some areas. You might want to try the Mint forum, maybe someone else has the same problem and has found a fix.Interesting. And thanks. It seems like it has to be something like that. I suppose they will figure that out and tweak things a bit. SSDs are definitely here to stay and I think the platters will be a thing of the past before too long.Think I might have figured it out, It is the SSD and how it handles data. HHDs work with file systems in sectors, SSDs work with blocks and pages, when data is written to the SSD the drive will optimize it and possibly move it to a different block/page if it sees it as necessary. While the primary OS works fine the add ons may not be able to handle the SSD data exchange properly so you end up with a black screen, it can't locate the start up files.No virtual machine. I am running Mint with xfce addons, loggining into xfce and Kodi runs great.Let me get this straight, are you're using Virtualbox or are you dual booting? Those are the only two ways you can run Kodi with Mint.It's fine now because I popped the hard drive back in it. I'm leary about messing with the bios because it may knock out what I have. Later on I may put the ssd in and try it. Or a distro that does what I want. I cannot understand why Kodi runs so poorly in Mint, some kind of hardware acceleration conflict I think and maybe why there's no issue under xfce.Yes but you're having issues with them working together, right? That may be the problem the other one may be the SSD partitioning setup that's causing the problem, don't know since I've never looked at how they deal with partitioning.
On the ssd, not so much. If I install the xfce components in Mint, I get a black screen with cursor from then on. I can cntrl/alt/F2 it and get to the terminal then login to Mint with startx. So I'll stick with the spinning platters for now.